My wife recently purchased an over the toilet space saving cabinet to store bathroom items. When the box containing was opened, it was full of a large number of parts, boards, screws, and various hardware items. It looked like it would be complicated to put together and the instructions would be hard to follow.

I decided to surprise my wife and put the unit together last Sunday when she was away running errands. What I thought might take 1-2 hours to complete ended up taking about 6 hours and my wife’s help the next day.

The directions were so complicated, yet I did succeed in constructing the unit but to my embarrassment and frustration, the final product did not look like the picture on the box in which it came.

The top part of the cabinet was supposed to have two glass doors and below it an open shelf. My finished product had the two glass doors in the middle and the open shelf on top. This made the entire unit top heavy and incapable of having the doors work correctly.

When my wife came home, I confessed that my loving effort of three hours failed and asked for her help to redo what was done incorrectly by me. We decided to wait until Monday to redo it as I was out of patience from the entire experience.

The next day we did move various parts around and were able to have a very nice cabinet unit placed over the toilet with every piece in its right place. It took 3 hours to fix what I had done the previous day.

I was so grateful to have my wife’s extra eyes, skill, and guidance to finish the project.

This led me to think how good it is to have the Catechism of the Catholic Church to find the answer to the questions we may have about our faith. Instead of winging one’s understanding about complicated spiritual matters we might not understand about our faith (like I did in part when I did not understand what I was doing in building a cabinet), we can find the guidance and answer in the Catechism. We are also blessed in having Father Ted help guide us in the matters that are hard to understand.

The noun, rumination, means a deep considered thought about something.

-By Deacon Tom Gryzbek